put your application on hold and ask you to provide more information. You must either provide the information, or write to us agreeing or refusing to provide the information, within 15 working days of the date of our request. If you refuse to provide the information but ask us to proceed anyway, this may affect how we treat your application in step 2 below.

If we’re confident that your application has all the information we need, we get the processing underway.

We calculate your application fee, which needs to be paid at the same time as you lodge your application.

We send you an invoice, with a covering letter detailing payment methods.

We prepare a report on your application and decide whether it should be ‘notified’. This decision depends on:

the type of resource consent you’ve applied for

whether your proposal has no effects, its effects are minor or its effects are more than minor

what the District Plan says about the notification of your proposed activity.

Our notification options are:

non-notified – we don't require your application to be notified because either there are no effects or the effects are minor, and where relevant you've got written approvals from the affected parties

limited notified – we write to any affected parties from whom you don’t have written approval and invite them to make submissions on your application. They have 20 working days from the day they receive our letter to make a submission

fully notified – we consider that the effects of your proposal are significant enough to invite the wider public to make submissions. We call for submissions by:

putting a public notice in Hutt News and/or the Dominion Post, after which anyone can make a written submission (PDF 114 kb) within the following 20 working days